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Here Is How A Team Ends Up With Third-And-Goal From Their Own 7-Yard Line
Louisiana Tech got blown out by Mississippi State tonight, and it’s hard to see how with such offensive finesse as this....
Ah, The Dipshittery
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Dante Pettis Breaks Pac-12 Record With Seventh Career Punt Return TD
Washington wideout Dante Pettis knocked DeSean Jackson off the Pac-12 record charts when his 67-yard return gave him his seventh career touchdown off a punt. It’s quite the show, too....
In These Dangerous Times, It's Important To Remember That The Jets Are Crud
When you are fleeing your home, and perhaps your state, and perhaps your former life, as a historic hurricane bears down on you, it’s a good idea that you take a few moments to remember what’s really important in this lifetime: that the Jets are a bunch of junk:...
Rams All-Pro Tackle Aaron Donald Abruptly Ends His Holdout
Adam Schefter is reporting that Aaron Donald, two-time All-Pro defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams and arguably the single best player in the NFL, will reportedly end his holdout and return to the Rams, where he will continue to be wildly underpaid on his rookie scale contract in a league wher...
Teen Professional Surfer Killed Riding Monster Waves Powered By Irma
Zander Venezia, a 16-year-old junior pro surfer from Barbados, was reportedly killed this week surfing the huge swell created by the approach of Hurricane Irma. From a Surfline report:...
Rebecca Lobo's Hall Of Fame Speech Was A Classic
Rebecca Lobo was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last night. Lobo was easily one of the greatest players in college basketball history, leading the Connecticut Huskies to an undefeated season and an NCAA Championship in 1995, and winning just about every individual award ...
Judge Blocks Ezekiel Elliott's Suspension, Calls NFL's Investigation "Fundamentally Unfair"
United States District Court Judge Amos Mazzant ruled today in favor of Ezekiel Elliott, granting him a preliminary injunction against the NFL. It means that the Cowboys running back’s six-game suspension is blocked, at least for now....
Lawsuit: Notre Dame Covered Up An Alleged Rape Committed By A Football Player
An anonymous former Notre Dame student filed a lawsuit on August 17 on St. Joseph’s County Circuit Court alleging that a football player raped her in his dorm room in January 2016 and that instead of dealing with the alleged assault, as she requested, the school mishandled it and swept it under the...
East Carolina Sunk Its Own Ship
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
So Your Spouse Wants To Bring Sushi Casserole To The Party
What do you do if your spouse, an amateur and not very skilled cook, makes a disgusting and possibly lethal “sushi casserole” and sets his or her heart on bringing it to and serving it at a large, fancy social event, where it almost certainly will meet with humiliating public rejection?...
Alex Smith Smoked The Patriots By Going Back To College
Alex Smith torched the Patriots Thursday night, and his final stat line was very un-Alex Smith-like: 28-for-35, 368 passing yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, a 148.6 passer rating. Head coach Andy Reid’s and offensive coordinator Matt Nagy’s creative play design and blend of West Coast and s...
These Are The Animal Wranglers Behind The Internet's Only Good Twitter Account
SAN FRANCISCO—Alabama Street runs north through the heart of the Mission, from Bernal Heights Park, past the city’s best burrito spot on 24th, all the way up to 16th Street, when its name changes, for one block, and it becomes Rescue Row. The bulk of the city’s animal outreach and rescue organizatio...
Yet Another UFC Main Event Derailed By Last-Second Medical Issue
This weekend, Demetrious Johnson was supposed to fight Ray Borg and go for the all-time record for consecutive UFC title defenses. Johnson is one of the greats and as perfect of a fighter as you’ll see in the UFC today, and while Borg is “fine,” the flyweight belt is DJ’s and he was probably going ...
Alabama's Governor Won't Give Us The Auburn Softball Complaint; Maybe They'll Give It To You
Last month, ESPN reported that former Auburn softball player Alexa Nemeth had filed a complaint alleging that players suffered sexual harassment and abuse under then-head coach Clint Myers. This complaint, per ESPN, also said that “Coach Clint Myers knowingly let his son Corey Myers have relations ...
Okay, Seriously, What's Going On With Antonio Cromartie's Penis?
Free-agent cornerback Antonio Cromartie’s wife, Terricka, recently gave birth to the couple’s sixth child. This is the 14th child that Cromartie has fathered, and the third that has been born after he had a vasectomy....
FIFA Wants To Know Who Dele Alli Was Flipping The Bird To<em></em>
It’s a little hard to summarize this one, so I’ll start with just the facts and explain later: Late on during Monday’s England-Slovakia World Cup qualifier, Dele Alli raised his middle finger at ... someone, and now FIFA is looking into it to determine if the target of Alli’s bird was someone who co...
NFL Suspends Josh Brown Six More Games, For Some Reason
The NFL’s initial investigation into allegations of domestic violence against former Giants kicker Josh Brown, which resulted in a one-game suspension, accomplished nothing. Even less is accomplished by the fact that the NFL has reportedly decided to suspend Brown for an additional six games....
Hello, Kareem Hunt
The Patriots got shoved into a trash compactor last night, and watching it felt wonderful. Alex Smith’s passable and shocking Aaron Rodgers impression may have been the most impressive part of the Chiefs’ performance, but the part that was the most fun to watch was rookie running back Kareem Hunt ma...